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Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce) @sleepyowl@chaos.social

2/24/2026, 2:33:57 PM

Public

This is why GiovanH's blog article is a must-read.

People assume that accessible hacks of invasive systems will always exist, and users hacking their devices is to be expected.

THIS SHOULDN'T BE A NORM. THIS IS AN ARMS RACE AND WE'RE OUTMATCHED. /7

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10/14/a-hack-is-not-enough/

Snippet from GiovanH's article: A Hack is Not Enough

The Smartbrains are not exempt from society. Once a policy is being enforced on the 80% of people who can’t fight or don’t care, it’s easy to categorize the deviants as cheats and criminals. All of a sudden it will be the case that you can’t adjust, and by then there will be systems to prevent any complaining from changing that fact. Best-case scenario the hackers are the last ones to fold which means by the time it affects them everyone else has already given up.

This is why I’m making the complaint I’m making. This is why it’s so dangerous for the technically enfranchised to be falsely confident. The people who care enough and understand the thing won’t raise as much of a fuss if they are given a way to work around the restriction. But this lack of pushback from experts encourages the shift to happen. The more normalized something is the harder it is to take action against it, and the more discouraged something is the easier it is to ban it and write off people who complain as fussy outliers. You can’t let a workaround be the last bastion standing between you and harm, because it will fall.

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce) @sleepyowl@chaos.social

2/24/2026, 2:38:12 PM

Public

People who think "oh we'll just buy Chinese motherboards and chips" or "just use open source hardware"

WHO FABRICATES THE BOARDS AND CHIPS FOR OSHW? DO YOU BELIEVE STATES LIKE CHINA AREN'T INTERESTED IN SIMILAR MEASURES OF CONTROL?

This is the tech equivalent of tankie-ism.

Quote Tweet by AvadxFeirm:

"OK, so that means every data center and server also wont be able to run Linux as well right?

i swear these people who think they know how the world works, when in reality they don't know shit

what would happen is there will either be an exception for certain hardware for big tech to use, and we'll just buy that from the second hand market, or big companies will just move their infrastructure outside of the affected area

because its cheaper to migrate all your labor and infrastructure, than it is to fiddle with an "approved" OS, and deal with the bugs, service issues, and vulnerabilities because its what the government demands

and as for consumers we'll just buy second hand from others offering unlocked variants of the hardware, and there will be variants even if they come from the shenzhen tech markets"

Quote Tweet by Gaylem Returns to Drangleic:
"The humble Chinese motherboard"

Quote Tweet by Computer_coinsBraz:
Stop buying their shit and start building open source fuck em matter fact age verification no needs to be on the ballot

Goose chase meme:

Panel 1: Who fabricates the boards and chips?
Panel 2: BIJ WHO FABRICATES THE BOARDS AND CHIPS?

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